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To: longnshort who wrote (254185)	10/7/2005 6:05:39 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572099

"there was NOTHING taken" Umm, right. When the reality-based reads The GAO Report also confirms the May 1993 assessment of the Travel Office's financial management practices by KPMG Peat Marwick, which "found significant financial management weaknesses, including the lack of formal guidelines and procedures for procurement, poor accounting systems, inadequate documentation and billing practices, and ineffective controls over cash management." The GAO's Report states that its "review of records from the Travel Office and KPMG's workpapers, as well as discussions with KPMG and former and current White House officials, confirmed that serious financial weaknesses existed." ibiblio.org We aren't really surprised when the people involved get fired, that is what usually happens under those circumstances. Especially when it is discovered that the director has somehow wound up with over $50,000 of the department's money in his bank account. True, the wing nut bloggers feel that such people are being unjustly pilloried, but corruption doesn't seem to bother them much in light of recent events...